I would guess you have factors instead of strings. Use as.character() or the
appropriate parameter to prevent generation of factors when you import the
names into R.
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Joel <joda2...@student.uu.se> wrote:
>Hi fellow R users.
>
>I have a problem when i try to change the Names of the columns on a
>dataset:
>The names of the names dataset looks like this:
>toPlot
>
>> names(toPlot)
>[1] "REPORT_20" "REPORT_21" "REPORT_22" "REPORT_23"
>[5] "REPORT_24" "REPORT_25" "REPORT_QREP001" "REPORT_RS010"
>[9] "REPORT_RS011" "REPORT_RS030" "REPORT_RS090" "REPORT_RS110"
>[13] "REPORT_RS120" "REPORT_RS121" "REPORT_RS122" "REPORT_RS130"
>
>[17] "REPORT_RS131" "REPORT_RS140" "REPORT_RS141"
>
>Then I got an dataset with correspondent texts
>
>> text
> ID
>TEXT
>1 REPORT_RS010_D
>Statusrapport
>2 REPORT_RS011_D
>Ifyllnad
>3 REPORT_RS030_D
>Export
>4 REPORT_RS090_D
>Uppföljning
>5 REPORT_RS110_D
>Guidelines
>6 REPORT_RS120_D Korstabulering - en
>gruppvariabel
>7 REPORT_RS121_D Korstabulering - jämförelse med andra
>enheter
>8 REPORT_RS122_D Korstabulering- två klassvariabler och jämförelse med
>andra
>9 REPORT_RS130_D
>Sjukdomar
>10 REPORT_RS131_D Sjukdomar och en
>gruppvariabel
>11 REPORT_RS140_D
>Operationer
>12 REPORT_RS141_D Operationer och en
>gruppvariabel
>
>I what i want is to change the names of toPlot with the real texts so I
>tried this:
>names(toPlot)[names(toPlot)=="REPORT_RS140"]<-text[text$ID==paste("REPORT_RS140","_D",sep=""),2];
>
>that gave me this strange result
>
>> names(toPlot)
>[1] "REPORT_20" "REPORT_21" "REPORT_22" "REPORT_23"
>[5] "REPORT_24" "REPORT_25" "REPORT_QREP001" "REPORT_RS010"
>[9] "REPORT_RS011" "REPORT_RS030" "REPORT_RS090" "REPORT_RS110"
>[13] "REPORT_RS120" "REPORT_RS121" "REPORT_RS122" "REPORT_RS130"
>
>[17] "REPORT_RS131" "7" "REPORT_RS141"
>
>As you can see I got the number 7 instead of the text and I dont know
>why.
>Can anyone spot the error?
>
>//joel
>
>
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